1. Creative characteristics of the Crescent Poetry School
(1) Rationality and restraint of emotions: Opposition to "sentimentalism" and "pseudo-romanticism", that is, opposition to unrestrained expression of one's heart. The lyrical method opposes futile moaning and saying nothing, creates objective lyric poetry, and strengthens the narrative element in poetry.
(2) Rhythmization of poetry: Taking "harmony" and "uniformity" as the most important aesthetic features of new poetry (creating Chinese-style poetry), the "metricalization of new poetry" advocates the "three beauties", namely The beauty of music (syllables), the beauty of painting (lexicon), and the beauty of architecture (the symmetry of stanzas and the neatness of sentences).
2. Introduction
The Crescent Society was founded in 1928 and was an important cultural group after the May Fourth Movement. Its main members include Hu Shi and Liang Shiqiu. Because it has a large number of talented and accomplished poets such as Wen Yiduo and Xu Zhimo, and is unique in advocating metrical poetry, it has formed an important poetry school in the history of modern poetry, known as the "Crescent Poetry School" or "Metrical Poetry School" group".
3. Emergence
The emergence of the Crescent Poetry School: At first, they mostly published their works in the supplement of "Morning Post" and "Modern Review". In April 1926, the supplement of "Morning Post" The creation of the column "Poetry" can be regarded as the formal formation of this school of poetry. In 1928, the monthly "Crescent Moon" was founded in Shanghai, with Xu Zhimo and Wen Yiduo as editors. The publication of "New Moon Selected Poems" (edited by Chen Mengjia) in 1931 can be regarded as a summary of this poetry school and also marks the end of this poetry school.
4. Main poets
The main poets include: Wen Yiduo, Xu Zhimo, Zhu Xiang, Rao Mengkan, Yang Shien, Sun Dayu, Liu Mengwei, Yu Gengyu, etc.